Prince Harry envious of Will, Kate's 'magnificent' palace apartment - New York Post

An excerpt from Prince Harry’s bombshell caller memoir, “Spare” reads similar thing retired of the iconic 1970s British TV amusement “Upstairs, Downstairs” astir a affluent household and their servants — but with a royal twist.

Turns retired Harry was greenish with envy implicit however luxuriously Prince William and Kate lived successful their “magnificent” Kensington Palace flat — portion helium and Meghan Markle made bash aboriginal connected successful a cramped cottage with Ikea furniture.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle lived the tiny Nottingham Cottage aboriginal successful their marriage.Netflix

The Duke of Sussex complains successful “Spare,” that his archetypal location with Meghan, Nottingham Cottage, was a acold outcry from William and Kate’s lavish “Apartment 1A,” though they some are connected the grounds of Kensington Palace, the Daily Mail reported.

“The wallpaper, the ceiling trim, the walnut bookshelves filled with volumes of peaceful colors, priceless works of art. Magnificent. Like a museum,” helium wrote astir Prince William’s digs.

Apartment 1A and “Nott Cott” are portion of the Kensington Palace complex.Getty Images

“We congratulated them connected the renovation without holding backmost the compliments portion feeling embarrassed of our IKEA lamps and the second-hand sofa we’d precocious bought connected merchantability with Meg’s recognition paper on sofa.com.”

Apartment 1A is said to person 20 rooms, and has agelong been William and Kate’s London base. The location was refurbished to the tune of $5 cardinal of payer wealth successful 2016 but the mates paid for fixtures and furnishings themselves.

In contrast, Nottingham Cottage, oregon “Nott Cott,” wherever Harry and Meghan started joined life, is simply a humble two-bedroom location — truthful tiny it reportedly shocked Oprah Winfrey erstwhile she visited them determination for tea, the mates claimed successful their caller Netflix documentary.

Winfrey told them “no 1 would ever believe” they were surviving there.

In their Netflix documentary, Meghan said: ‘People thought we lived successful a palace and we did. Well, a cottage successful a palace.’

Added Harry: “The full happening is connected a flimsy lean, [with] truly debased ceilings. So I don’t cognize who was determination earlier but they indispensable person been precise short.”

Harry and Meghan aboriginal moved from Nott Cott for ten-bedroom Frogmore Cottage connected the Queen’s Windsor Estate.

“Spare” accidentally went connected merchantability successful Spain successful a Spanish translation past week up of its authoritative merchandise Jan. 10.